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moneysense.ca, 13/04/07
This and That
- Jon Chevreau writes in his Wealthy Boomer blog about the new Claymore S&P CDN Preferred Share ETF.
- It was bound to happen: a lazy portfolio built using the new-fangled fundamental index ETFs.
- Rob Carrick compares the 10-year dividend growth rate with the 10-year share price increase in The Globe and Mail and concludes that dividends are almost a sure thing when it comes to investing.
- The Toronto Star’s Ellen Roseman recommends two investment books to read.
- Melanie McLister of Canadian Mortgage Trends points to an article that provides an overview of mortgage brokers.
- It’s a never-ending debate: invest in your RRSP or pay down the mortgage. Here are two recent posts on the subject from Million Dollar Journey and Canadian Dream.
- Thanks to Mike for recommending The Four Pillars of Investment Wisdom, a fascinating book by William Bernstein (of the Efficient Frontier website). I’ve only read the first twenty pages but am already planning on buying the book.
- If you are still procrastinating on your taxes, here’s a list of NETFILE certified tax preparation software packages. You can still get a $10 discount for downloading QuickTax.
moneysense.ca, 13/04/07
[...] found this little nugget from June 2006 from a link I saw (not a very interesting read) on Canadian Capitalist’s blog. It’s an article called “Turn on a Paradigm?” (very interesting read) and it was [...]
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I just finished the ‘Four Pillars’ a couple of days ago and also plan to buy it.
The author maintains a website http://www.efficientfrontier.com/ef/index.shtml which contains occasional finance articles.
CC,
Thanks for the link. It really is a debate that just will not die.
I suppose that is a good thing to try and generate a new idea once in a while on it.
CD
Luc: I regret the error. Here it is:
Link
CC I saw your comments in Chevreau’s blog – pretty good stuff.
We made the switch from Quicktax to UFile this year. There’s really nothing in Quicktax that justifies paying more than $20.
I have used Quicktax and Taxwiz in the past. This year I used StudioTax. It works great, and it is free. It did everything I needed, including Netfile. All they ask for is a donation. The link is included.
Cheers
http://www.studiotax.com/en/main.htm
I just took a look at the Claymore ETFs and most of them are so new that they haven’t even published their first quarterly report yet! You only have the prospectus to go on. I like the concept behind a few of them, but I’m not willing to put my cash into them until I see what their quarterly report with cash flow statements looks like and a complete list of their holdings…